November 2021

  • Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, whose whereabouts have been a matter of international concern for weeks, attended a tennis tournament in Beijing on Sunday, according to official photos published by the tournament organised by China Open. Peng can be seen among guests at the Fila Kids Junior Tennis Challenger Finals, dressed in a dark blue…

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  • Manchester United have finally done it: they’ve finally sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The news broke on Sunday morning that Solskjaer had finally been given his marching orders by the club after yet another embarrassing Premier League defeat – this time at the hands of Watford. With Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane and Cristiano Ronaldo arriving at…

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  • Manchester United have sacked manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the wake of losing to Watford in the Premier League, compounding an awful recent run of results and performances. United have won only one of their last seven league games, including embarrassingly comprehensive home defeats to Liverpool and Manchester City. The Watford result, which saw the…

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  • It’s pretty much inevitable now: You visit a website and get a notification that encourages you to read the company’s cookie policy. Then, the site asks if they can have your permission to give you cookies. Odds are, you just click through, don’t bother to read the policy and carry on with your web browsing,…

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  • CLAIM: Myriam Bourla, the wife of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, has died from complications of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. THE FACTS: A conservative blog known for publishing inaccurate articles posted a story Nov. 10 falsely claiming that Albert Bourla’s wife had died and her cause of death was listed as “complications from the Pfizer vaccine.”…

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  • Enes Kanter passed Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James without exchanging a word during pregame warmups on Friday night, but the Boston Celtics center’s sneakers said more than enough. One of Kanter’s sneakers featured James’ likeness being crowned by Chinese president Xi Jinping. The other read, “I am informed and educated on the situation,” a…

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  • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. Meziesblog checked them out. Here are the facts: Myocarditis is often mild, contrary to online claims CLAIM: Myocarditis causes irreversible damage to the heart.…

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  • Social media posts misrepresent reason for blurred presidential seal. CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris’ Twitter account blurred the presidential seal on President Joe Biden’s desk in a recent video because Biden isn’t really the president. THE FACTS: The video of Biden signing the $1 trillion “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” was first posted by the Democratic National…

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  • Hot off the heels of her sister, Kourtney, getting engaged to Travis Barker, Kim Kardashian has gone and bagged herself a new beau, Pete Davidson. After meeting – and sharing a kiss – on the set of Saturday Night Live in October, the pair have been spotted at an amusement park together, spending Davidson’s birthday together and now they’ve been pictured holding hands too.…

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  • It happened when I was four. “Oh that’s so good,” said an old school friend, when I revealed the age I was when my parents had split up. “At least you were young; I bet you barely even think about it now.” For a long time, I thought that was true. Like everyone, I’ve been…

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  • Lady Gaga has revealed that the viral line of dialogue she utters in the House of Gucci trailer was an ad-lib. Upon the release of the trailer, fans went wild for a scene where Gaga’s character, Patrizia Gucci, recites “Father, Son and House of Gucci” while making the sign of the cross. “I would do it in the…

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  • Britney Spears went after fellow former Mousketeer Christina Aguilera Friday for refusing to open up about Britney’s struggles over her conservatorship. Christina was on a red carpet for the Latin Grammys when she was asked if she had any communications with Britney. It was a true Hollywood moment … Christina and her publicist clearly did not want to…

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  • A man holds a V-shaped model aeroplane above his head and runs through a field, eventually letting go and watching as it glides a few metres above the ground. This crude flight test was the very first step in the creation of a bold new aircraft that, its inventors say, could change the way we…

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  • Here’s a special message from the Meziesblog family to the best guys out there. The month of November has been dedicated to men and their wellbeing. You guys are amazing, and we at Meziesblog would love you to know that. Here are some affirmations to keep you going; You are valid. You are loved. You are capable…

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  • YouTube will be hiding the dislike count on all videos from public view, keeping the thumbs-down button but hiding the overall count of how many other people have clicked it. The decision follows a trial to YouTube to see whether masking negative feedback would make for less harassment, as well as reentering exactly what it…

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  • Be Antibiotics Aware is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) national educational effort to help improve antibiotic prescribing and use and combat antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to the public’s health. Antibiotic resistance happens when germs, like bacteria and fungi, develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to…

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